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You'd pipe chilled coolant down into The Tube and perform the heat exchange below ground (cooling the air below). The energy intensive chillers would run on the surface.

But first, regenerative braking; you must stop adding more energy into the system before you consider a method to extract the existing thermal energy.




They already use regenerative braking and are running all of their ventilation shafts at full blast all the time (with upgraded fans).

The groundwater system in the article more or less does what you suggest, without the expense of the chillers.




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